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This week's Chegg Expert spotlight is shining on Scott Battaglia. Scott just joined us on the Google+ community last week, but he has been writing top-quality solutions for us in physics for over a year! Scott has quite a varied background, from teaching to being a Master Pyrotechnic for Walt Disney World (Say whaaaat!?). Read on for his inspiring words about why and how he helps students on Chegg...
QUESTION 1: Tell us about yourself!
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As the last few weeks of your summer internship wind down and your thoughts begin to drift towards the beginning of school, don’t forget to stay committed and focused on your summer internship. It is critical to make not only a good first impression, but also powerful last impression. Make sure to do these 7 things before leaving your internship and you will have situated yourself in an ideal position for any of your future endeavors.1. Ask for feedback
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This week's winning answer goes to Professor7 for an answer in the economics section. Professor7 specializes in economics, physics, finance, accounting, and algebra. Thus far, Professor7 has answered 763 questions, for which he has received an average rating of 4.5 stars.
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Taking out a loan for college can be messy, feel messy with the foreign terminology and numbers. But thankfully there are resources to help students with their Financial Aid planning and eventual repayments. Saving you the trouble of having to comb through Student Aid's website, I've compiled five quick and important things you need to know about student loans.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness means you're not required to pay back all, or part of your loan. Which is pretty awesome, but it only applies ...

Amit Rohilla is an avid participant on Chegg’s Q&A Boards. Over the past two years, he has answered 709 questions (and counting!) and is determined to continue helping students through his expert answers in the future. He is an expert in electrical and computer science, and we all know those are incredibly tough subjects for students, so Amit is helping them get unstuck time and time again. He just recently graduated with his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, and now he ...

Meet Dr. Jeffrey Sack, a long-time science and education enthusiast who hails from the shoreline of Connecticut State, USA. Jeffrey embodies Chegg's goal of democratizing education with the sole objective of providing students internationally with greater access to information. Jeffrey is a new member of the boards, but he's always on the lookout for ways to help students get smarter!
In his own words below, and something special to keep in mind as you spend your time with us here at ...

This post is part of our "Winning Answer" ongoing series
As many of you know, literature questions and answers are fairly rare on the boards today. A lot of the reason for this is that our experts often don't know how to approach the types of questions that students ask without straight-up solving the problem or writing students' essays for them. That's no good and nobody ...

Here's an important update on a major product improvement we've rolled out in the last week! You can now sort through the questions that need answers depending on your answering strategy. This should help you approach answering in a more personal way. It will also make the questions easy to discover, so you never miss an opportunity to help a student in need! Make sure that you edit your topics when you go to ...

Rajdeep reached out to me a few weeks ago with a really touching story about how he came to be active on Chegg and what it means to him. It made us all realize here that our experts have some really special stories to tell, and we want to share those with others. Starting this week, we'll begin a regular spotlight on our Q&A experts.
Here's Rajdeep's story....
After a serious medical incident in May 2012, Rajdeep had to defer ...

I graduated from a little high school in a little town in 2008. It's now 2013 and I have yet to receive any sort of college degree. I attended community college a month after graduation, I was still 17.
So, how'd I do in my first course as a freshman? It was a summer course - I felt compelled to "get ahead" at that time - and I came away with a B+ from I-can't-remember-his-name's Algebra 2 class, a class I ...